Video taken by an observer at city council yesterday who gave Philadelphia blogger and It’s Our City contributor Patrick Cobbs a copy of the video.

In this video, you will see Philadelphia police officers scuffle with two members of the Uhuru Movement who were protesting at yesterday’s city council meeting. It happened before Mayor Michael Nutter entered the chambers to deliver his controversial budget proposal. The two were later arrested and charged with aggravated assault, obstructing justice and resisting arrest. The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jeff Shields gives us the events that led up to the actual fight.

About a dozen members of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, who came to protest Mayor Nutter’s budget speech, refused requests by the Council’s sergeant-at-arms staff to remain silent during the Council meeting.

The group’s leader, Wali Rahman, 32, of the 3700 block of Lancaster Avenue, who goes by the name Diop Olugbala, held a sign reading “Throw Nutter in the gutter,” and repeated the name of Shareef Lee Jones, a 14-year-old Frankford player who was shot dead last August in a confrontation with a retired police officer who was working as a pizza deliveryman.

Rahman, an organizer for the movement, made national news last year when he challenged Obama’s commitment to the black community at a Town Hall event in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Police said the protesters “became louder and also verbally abusive.” When Rahman was asked to leave, police said, Rahman tried to “push, shove and throw punches” at a police Civil Affairs sergeant. The altercation appeared to break out when the sergeant attempted to forcibly take the sign from Rahman.